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Author rhettinger
Recipients barry, christian.heimes, jader.fabiano, pitrou, r.david.murray, rhettinger, serhiy.storchaka, tshepang
Date 2014-08-06.01:25:58
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> Should this be categorized as a security issue? 
> You could easily DoS a server with that 
> (email.parser is used by http.client to parse HTTP 
> headers, it seems).

I think it makes sense to treat this as a security issue.

I don't have a preference about whether to use Serhiy's email_parser_long_lines.patch or my fix_email_parse2.diff
but we should include the extra tests in test_parser.diff.
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